Wevr has launched TheBlu: Deep Rescue, a co-production with Dreamscape Immersive, at Dreamscape’s brand new venue in California.Read More Source: Wevr’s TheBlue: Deep Rescue debuts at Dreamscape social VR venue
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Facebook’s Portal adds Instant Games and custom video call camera control
Facebook’s Portal smart display is getting custom camera control for video calls, Instant Games like Words With Friends, news apps, and a web browser.Read More Source: Facebook’s Portal adds Instant Games and custom video call camera control
The 25 Best Oculus Rift Games Day #5
It was over six years ago now that a small group of people gathered together to run a Kickstarter campaign for a first-of-its-kind VR headset. They raised nearly $2.5 million and the Oculus Rift was born. Fast forward to 2018 and the Rift has been on the market for two and a half years and...
Beat Saber Bests PSVR November Charts, Deracine Disappears
A little game called Beat Saber finally reached PSVR fans in mid-November and proved to be something of a hit. It’s no surprise, then, to learn that it was the best-selling PSVR game on the PS Store last month. Beat Games’ rhythm action title topped both the US and EU lists for last month, dethroning...
Facebook restructures Building 8, separating projects into Reality Labs and Portal groups
Facebook is restructuring its experimental hardware efforts and giving its moonshot projects a home within its AR/VR research division. The restructuring, reported by Business Insider (paywalled), didn’t result in any layoffs but did see some shifts of teams as the old Building 8 group rebranded to Portal and some projects moved to the former Oculus...
Niantic reportedly raising $200M at $3.9B valuation
Pokémon GO creator Niantic is raising a $200 million Series C at a valuation of $3.9 billion, according to a report from Katie Roof at the WSJ. The round is expected to be led by IVP with participation from Samsung and aXiomatic Gaming. The upcoming raise would bring the company’s total funding to $425 million, according to...
The Biggest VR Releases Of The Week Of 12/09/18
Two weeks into December and things still aren’t quieting down on the VR releases front. In fact, we might be so bold as to say this is one of the strongest line-ups we’ve had for this list in some time. Dig deep; it’s gonna be an expensive week. Miss last week’s releases? They’re right here. What...
OLED Breakthrough Could Lead To Longer Battery Life Standalone VR
Researchers from the University of Cambridge (UK) and Jilin University (China) published a new paper the journal Nature describing their apparent breakthrough in the efficiency of red OLED subpixels. The technique involves using “radicals” – semiconducting molecules with unpaired electrons. According to the paper, a quantum physics property of these radicals (their ‘spin’) causes them...
Free Capture App Lets You Scan 3D Objects With A Recent iPhone
The face camera on an iPhone X or newer can be used to make 3D scans. A new app for iPhone makes it easy to produce 3D scans from any recent Apple device equipped with a front-facing camera for Animoji. This means the Capture app from Standard Cyborg can scan objects using an iPhone X,...
AMD GPUs Can Stream SteamVR Games To Vive Focus, Mirage Solo and Oculus Go
AMD’s new software Radeon ReLive for VR will allow owners of their GPUs to stream SteamVR games to a standalone or mobile VR headset. The software currently supports the HTC Vive Focus, but it specifically calls out Daydream devices so it should work for Daydream phones and the Lenovo Mirage Solo as well. Support for the Oculus Go...